Born in Texas in 1946. Maternal grandparents ranched for 50 years near
Uvalde. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (UC Berkeley)--specialty, European
Middle Ages, including Byzantine Empire. Left academe in '82 for full-time
anti-nuclear weapons organizing with Livermore Action Group (Bay Area,
California), '82-'85. Lived in group household in Berkeley, 1985-1998. Did
etymological research for 3 years for American Heritage Dictionary (3rd
edition) around '90. Involved in Save Ward Valley campaign, '95-'98. War
tax resister, nonviolence trainer. Partners with Tori Woodard since '85.
Moved to Escalante, UT in 9/98 for Tori's health. Co-founder of Escalante
House and Escalante Wilderness Project. Goals include winning civil rights
for environmentalists in Southern Utah and getting the cows off Western
public lands (BLM, USFS, NPS). Elected to Executive Committee of new Glen
Canyon Group of Sierra Club this summer. By popular agreement, most hated
man in Escalante. Interested in sustainable economic alternatives in rural
West, which local "ranchocracy" seems determined to resist at
all costs. Love Southern Utah, but unfavorably impressed by Southern
Utahns. Tori's health much improved, so Escalante is stuck with us for the
foreseeable future. Excited to see anti-grazing movement starting to
blossom, after 20 years or so of slow underground spread of information,
outrage, personal connections and initiatives. Our major task now is to
raise public awareness of damage grazing does to ecosystems,
archaeological sites, human society and economy. The Escalante Wilderness
Project's Immodest local vision is protected wilderness (no livestock!)
from the Aquarius Plateau, down the Escalante drainage, and across a
restored Glen Canyon all the way to Blanding, Monticello, and Mexican Hat
way east of the Colorado River.